Multi-Attribute Neutrosophic Decision-Making in Dosimetric Assessment of Radiotherapy Imaging Techniques

2021 ◽  
pp. 615-629
Author(s):  
R. Binu ◽  
Paul Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Dosimetric Assessment

scholarly journals Clinical decision making and research in hepatocellular carcinoma: Pivotal role of imaging techniques

Hepatology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 2238-2244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Bruix ◽  
Maria Reig ◽  
Jordi Rimola ◽  
Alejandro Forner ◽  
Marta Burrel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Pivotal Role

Capital Punishment, Retribution, and Emotion

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-290
Author(s):  
Anthony Walsh ◽  
Virginia L. Hatch
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Group Stability ◽  
Normal People ◽  
Capital Cases ◽  
Almost All

This article explores the emotions behind the retributive urge as it applies to the death penalty in the United States. It is argued that the retributive urge is so strong because it engages the most primitive of our emotions, and that these emotions served adaptive purposes over the course of human evolution. Many scholars offended by the retributive instinct insist that we must put emotions aside when discussing the death penalty, even as jurors in death penalty cases, and rely on our rationality. To ask this is to ask what almost all normal people find impossible because the emotions evoked in capital cases (disgust, anger, sympathy for the victim, desire for justice) evolved for the purpose of maintaining group stability and survival by punishing freeloaders. Modern neuroscience has destroyed the traditional notion that rationality and emotion are antagonists. Brain imaging techniques show that they are fully integrated in our brain wiring, and both are engaged in decision making, but when reason and emotion yield conflicting judgments, the latter almost always triumphs. The evolutionary rationales for why emotions conducive to punitive responses for wrongdoers exist are examined.

scholarly journals Immuno-Imaging to Predict Treatment Response in Infection, Inflammation and Oncology

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Signore ◽  
Chiara Lauri ◽  
Sveva Auletta ◽  
Kelly Anzola ◽  
Filippo Galli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nuclear Medicine ◽  
Treatment Response ◽  
Fungal Infections ◽  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Nuclear Medicine Imaging ◽  
Tumour Immunology ◽  
Therapy Decision

Background: Molecular nuclear medicine plays a pivotal role for diagnosis in a preclinical phase, in genetically susceptible patients, for radio-guided surgery, for disease relapse evaluation, and for therapy decision-making and follow-up. This is possible thanks to the development of new radiopharmaceuticals to target specific biomarkers of infection, inflammation and tumour immunology. Methods: In this review, we describe the use of specific radiopharmaceuticals for infectious and inflammatory diseases with the aim of fast and accurate diagnosis and treatment follow-up. Furthermore, we focus on specific oncological indications with an emphasis on tumour immunology and visualizing the tumour environment. Results: Molecular nuclear medicine imaging techniques get a foothold in the diagnosis of a variety of infectious and inflammatory diseases, such as bacterial and fungal infections, rheumatoid arthritis, and large vessel vasculitis, but also for treatment response in cancer immunotherapy. Conclusion: Several specific radiopharmaceuticals can be used to improve diagnosis and staging, but also for therapy decision-making and follow-up in infectious, inflammatory and oncological diseases where immune cells are involved. The identification of these cell subpopulations by nuclear medicine techniques would provide personalized medicine for these patients, avoiding side effects and improving therapeutic approaches.

scholarly journals The effect of different imaging techniques for the visualisation of evidence in court on jury comprehension

2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
pp. 1451-1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Errickson ◽  
H. Fawcett ◽  
T. J. U. Thompson ◽  
A. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
3D Imaging ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Technical Language ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
3D Printed

AbstractEvidence presented within a courtroom should be clear so that the members of the jury can understand it. The presentation of distressing images, such as human remains, can have a negative effect on the jury since photographic images may evoke emotional responses. Therefore, it is important to understand how other visual mediums may improve comprehension, bias, or distress individuals. For this study, 91 individuals were randomly assigned one of three visual evidence formats in a mock courtroom exercise. These included photographs, 3D visualisations, or a 3D-printed model. The results show that the use of 3D imaging improves the juror’s understanding of technical language used within a courtroom, which in turn better informs the juror’s in their decision-making.

The Value of EEG-Based Electromagnetic Tomographic Analysis in Human Performance and Mental Health

Biofeedback ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Collura ◽  
Nancy L. Wigton ◽  
Carlos Zalaquett ◽  
SeriaShia Chatters-Smith ◽  
Ronald J. Bonnstetter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Wave Activity ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
Approach Avoidance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Tomographic Analysis ◽  
Work Done

Most work done in areas such as counseling, therapy, leadership, and coaching involves some aspect of decision making. New electroencephalographic (EEG) electromagnetic tomographic analysis (ETA) imaging techniques provide a mechanism for exploring decisions, while the individual is directly engaged in everyday choice making, by exposing our precognitive emotional responses to identified thoughts, feelings, and actions. This article discusses gamma wave activity research, at the precognitive level, and its use for describing approach-avoidance decision making. Armed with these new insights, an individual can better understand the emotional triggers that affect our daily decisions.

Importance of Brain Reward System in Neuromarketing

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Tayfun Uzbay
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Reward System ◽  
Functional Link ◽  
Limbic Structures ◽  
Brain Reward ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Shopping Addiction ◽  
Brain Reward System

Neuromarketing is a relatively new concept. It is simply focused on the relationship between consumer behavior and the brain. For this purpose, it analyzes various customer behaviors towards the product and purchase by using various brain imaging techniques and behavioral methodology. Some limbic structures of brain such as ventral tegmental area (VTA), nucleus acumbens (NAc), and amygdala have a link to prefrontal cortex (PFC) by dopaminergic mesocorticolimbic pathway. This functional link is called brain reward system (BRS). BRS has a crucial role in the decision-making process of humans during shopping as well as addiction processes of brain. Studies investigating BRS in neuromarketing are very limited. In the chapter, working principles of BRS in neuromarketing and association with human shopping behaviors and shopping addiction/dependence has been investigated and discussed.

scholarly journals Stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance and mortality in a registry of 2496 elderly patients with chronic coronary syndrome. Prognosis and decision-making

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Gabaldon-Perez ◽  
S Garcia-Blas ◽  
J Gavara ◽  
C Rios-Navarro ◽  
N Perez-Sole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Elderly Patients ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Vasodilator Stress ◽  
Coronary Syndrome ◽  
Stress Cmr ◽  
Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background. In recent guidelines, non-invasive imaging techniques play a pivotal role in the management of chronic coronary syndrome (CCS). The elderly represent a large percentage of our routine CCS population and risk stratification in this scenario is challenging. The potential of vasodilator stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for this purpose is unknown. Purpose. We explore the prognostic value and the usefulness for decision-making of the ischemic burden determined by vasodilator stress CMR imaging in a large cohort of elderly patients with known or suspected CCS. Methods. The study group was made up of 2496 patients older than 70 years submitted to vasodilator stress CMR for known or suspected CCS in our health department from 2001 to 2016 (mean age 76 ± 4 years, 52% male). Clinical and vasodilator stress CMR characteristics were prospectively recorded. The ischemic burden (number of segments with stress-induced perfusion deficit) was calculated following the 17-segment model. Its association with all-cause mortality and the effect of vasodilator stress CMR-guided revascularization (within the following 3 months) were analyzed retrospectively. Results. During a median follow-up of 4.58 years, 430 deaths (17.2%) were recorded. A larger ischemic burden was an independent predictor of mortality: hazard ratio [95% confidence intervals]: 1.04 [1.01-1.07] for each additional ischemic segment, p = 0.006). This association also occurred in patients over 80 years of age and in women (p < 0.001). Compared to non-revascularized patients, revascularization associated with worse outcomes at low ischemic burden and exerted protective prognostic effect in patients with extensive ischemia both in the whole group (p for interaction = 0.003) and in 496 patients matched 1:1 by a propensity score (p = 0.06). Conclusions. Vasodilator stress CMR represents a valuable tool to stratify risk in elderly patients with known or suspected CCS and might be helpful to guide decision-making in this scenario. Abstract Figure 1

scholarly journals MULTISPECTRAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING FORWALL PAINTINGS STUDIES

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W3 ◽  
pp. 559-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pamart ◽  
O. Guillon ◽  
S. Faraci ◽  
E. Gattet ◽  
M. Genevois ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Digital Photogrammetry ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Data Acquisition And Processing

In the field of wall paintings studies different imaging techniques are commonly used for the documentation and the decision making in term of conservation and restoration. There is nowadays some challenging issues to merge scientific imaging techniques in a multimodal context (i.e. multi-sensors, multi-dimensions, multi-spectral and multi-temporal approaches). For decades those CH objects has been widely documented with Technical Photography (TP) which gives precious information to understand or retrieve the painting layouts and history. More recently there is an increasing demand of the use of digital photogrammetry in order to provide, as one of the possible output, an orthophotomosaic which brings a possibility for metrical quantification of conservators/restorators observations and actions planning. This paper presents some ongoing experimentations of the LabCom MAP-CICRP relying on the assumption that those techniques can be merged through a common pipeline to share their own benefits and create a more complete documentation.

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